, 1887-11-17
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIEs.

Inc Central bank OF CapaQa, at lOr0n-
to, has suspended.
Cal. Broughton. the catcher last year
for the Milwaukee club, has signed with
the Detroits for 1888.
r. Fl. G. Hill, a stockbroker of Phila
delphia, announced his inability to meet
his obligations yesterday.
The Rev. James W. Saul, vice presi-
dent of the Universal Peace Union, died
in Philadelphia yesterday.
Sir VIM. Macarthur, ex lord mayor of
London, died in carriage of the under
ground railway yesterday.
The packing house of Hancock chem
ical works. at Hancock, Mich, was blown
up yesterday and six men were killed.
The steamer Wah Young has been de
stroyed by FIRE in Canton river. About
400 passengers are supposed to have been
lost.
Rev. DR.. Francis 7. Potter, professor
of geology at Princeton college, will sue
coed DIR. McCosh as president of that in
stitute.
The London Globe unoficially says that
the government will swear in 20, 900 spe.
cial constables to check further riots in
London.
Tenants on the County Down estates of
Lord Londonderry, lord lieutenant, have
declined to accept the offer of 50 per cent
reduction OF their rents.
In the recent emute at Eski-Saghra, In
Eastern Romelia, sixteen soldiers were
killed by the insurgents n thirty wound
ed. The insurgents lost sixty men.
A dispatch from London says the Rev.
Charles B. Berry, who has been called to
succeed Mr.. Beecher in the Plymouth
church, Brooklyn, has not yet accepted
the offer.
The jury in the second trial of John
A~rensdorf for the murder of Rev. Geo.
G. Haddock in Sioux city has been com
pleted. The taking of testimony begins
to-day.
Fire broke out yesterday in the estab-
lishmenL of the Zieicle Brewing compa-
ny, at Buffalo, N. Y. The malt houses,
ice houses and elevator were entirely de-
stroyed.
The federal grand jury has returned to
the United States court IN indictment
against Chas. Il. Crecelius, the ex-cashier
of the defunct Fifth National Bank OF
Cincinnati.
Michael Davitt says O'Brien's life is
far too precious to be sacrificed in a dis
pute about clothes, and that if he died in
Jail his countrymen would know how to
avenge him.
The verdict of wilful murder against
George Freeman and eight emergency
men for shooting old man Klnzella at
Coolgreany, County Wexford, on Sept.
%, has been confirmed.
Isaac Sickle, of New York, wholesale
dealer In laces and ~velvets, has made an
assignment. The failure WAS caused by
the heavy depreciation of pushes and vel
vets and losses by bad debts.
The Northern Pacific. with the view to
meeting the prospective competition from
the Cadaian Pacific, has decided to put
on a fast train to the Pacific coast. reduc-
ing the running time by twenty hours.
The, first session of the third national
convention of the Cigar Manufacturers
Association was held in New York last
night. About sixty of the most promi
nent cigar manufacturers in the country
were present.
The clark Of the Cheyenne river agency
telegraphs the commissioner of Indian
affairs that an incendiary fire there has
destroyed one dwelling, two barns, a cor
raj, eight horses and a quantity of imple-
ments and stores.
At the annual conference of the English
Liberal League in London, a programme
was adopted approving home rule, colon
ial federation, a trienniel parliament, the
payment of members of parliament, free
education and female franchise.
Thu inquest on Louis Lingg was con
cluded yesterday without throwing any
light upon how he obtained the dynamite
or where he had it concealed. The yer
diet was death by suicide with a bomb
wo inches long and half an inch in diam
eter.
The Baptist National Congress yester-
day. in session at Indianapolis, listened to
a paper OF the secular press by Rob't
j. Burdette. 1t was discussed at length
and maintained hat the net effect OF
newspaper influence was for good and
that they were a power in the reformation
of evil.
The court OF queens bench has quashed
the verdict of the %oroners jury at
Mitchellstown in the case of the victims
of the police shooting on the 9th of Sep.
TENDER. The court takes the ground that
the inquest was illegal; that the jury was
irregularly empannelled, and that the
coroner's conduct was illegal and partial.
At Constanunople a British sailor serv
ing on the United States steamer Quinne-
baug, who was under sentence of impris-
onment for some offence, jumped over
board and swan ashore. He claimed the
protection of the British consulate and
they refused to give him up as the offence
was not ex.raditable. The matter has been
referred to the home Office.
Receives q Boom.
New YORK, NOV. l6.-An interview